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Daily Mail
10-07-2025
- Daily Mail
Martin Gunn: A correction
An article headlined 'Stalker, 51, who moved next door to a businesswoman he met on Hinge and imitated her life by buying the same dog and car is jailed for 20 months' (29 July 2024) said that, in May 2023, Martin Gunn moved next door to his victim. He in fact moved to a property on a nearby street. This correction has been published following an upheld ruling by the Independent Press Standards Organisation. To report an inaccuracy, please email corrections@ To make a formal complaint under IPSO rules please go to where you will find an easy-to-use complaints form. You can also write to Readers' Editor, MailOnline, 9 Derry Street, London W8 5HY or contact IPSO directly at
Spectator
19-06-2025
- Politics
- Spectator
NSPCC refuses to apologise to Braverman
Baroness Casey's landmark review into Britain's grooming gangs published some truly horrific findings on Monday. The damning audit revealed that disproportionate numbers of Asian men were responsible for child sexual exploitation gangs and, shockingly, that the authorities failed to crack down on them for fear of being racist. It has prompted outrage from those who had been vilified for suggesting particular groups of people were more likely to be perpetrators than others – and Mr S is curious about whether the organisations who were quick to cry racism will now retract their criticism. It seems the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) is not quite there yet. In May 2023, the organisation signed a joint letter – alongside 64 other groups – in which they huffed and puffed about comments made by Suella Braverman and Rishi Sunak on grooming gangs, rebutting ex-Home Secretary Braverman's claim that perpetrators of group-based offending were 'almost all British-Pakistani'. (IPSO deemed this to be misleading, but did not uphold the complaint after it accepted the Mail on Sunday's clarification, published some days later. The press regulator added: 'The Committee was not asked to, and did not, make a finding on the general issue of whether these offences are disproportionately committed by British-Pakistani men.') The letter blasted the 'misinformation, racism and division' spread by the politicians and claimed that 'partial, inaccurate or divisive claims' about child sexual abuse undermined crime prevention. The organisations fumed: We are extremely concerned that recent public communications about child sexual abuse from Government Ministers have been based on misleading information and risk creating division, rather than keeping children safe. But recent events have altered the accepted facts somewhat. The complex picture by the Casey report suggests that, where ethnicity data was logged (in around a third of the cases of group-based child sexual exploitation) there was an overrepresentation of Asian and Pakistani men. Take Manchester, for example: according to the report, over a three-year period 52 per cent of suspects involved in multi-victim, multi-offender child sexual exploitation cases were Asian compared to 38 per cent who were white. And, as Mr S has written before, Pakistani men are up to five times as likely to be responsible for child sex grooming offences than the general population, according to figures from the Hydrant Programme, which investigates child sex abuse. Around one in 73 Muslim men over 16 have been prosecuted for 'group-localised child sexual exploitation' in Rotherham, research by academics from the universities of Reading and Chichester has revealed. None of this is enough to make the NSPCC row back, however. Instead the organisation pointed Mr S towards its statement made on Monday in response to Baroness Casey's review, which said: Any child can be a victim of child sexual exploitation and adults who commit these horrific crimes come from different backgrounds and communities. Perpetrators target the most vulnerable and accessible children in society and if we narrow our focus, we risk missing those hiding in plain sight, whatever their ethnicity. When Steerpike pressed the society, it said it had no plans to put forward a retraction or apology. How very interesting. Perhaps some of the letter's other signatories may choose to distance themselves from that rather dated memo instead. Talk about aging badly, eh?
Yahoo
05-05-2025
- Yahoo
Phony law enforcement phone scam hits Iberia Parish
NEW IBERIA, La. () — A telephone scam by people claiming to be law enforcement in an has hit Iberia Parish. According to the , multiple residents have alerted the IPSO of callers falsely claiming the recipients have arrest warrants in their names, and demanding money to 'clear' the warrant. Similar scams have been previously reported by and , and are . The call usually comes from what appears to be the real agency's phone number. Scammers mask their phone number, so the law enforcement agency's number is what shows up on the caller ID. Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now Law enforcement agencies will never inform you of a warrant over the phone, threaten arrest over the phone, and will never ask for any payment over the phone, especially via bank transfer or gift cards. IPSO asks anyone who receives a call like this to hang up immediately and alert local authorities. Some of the most popular baby names of 2025 so far President Trump announces 2027 NFL draft will be held in Washington, D.C. Trump vows to bring back American movie industry with new tariff; what this looks like for Louisiana Louisiana survey aims to identify challenges for military veterans, their families Lafayette man killed in West Monroe after sex-for-hire ends in gunfire Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
The National
02-05-2025
- Politics
- The National
Free speech and the media have been on my mind this week
'STEWART, please remove these words: the minister is just an insidious wee man.' The above legal note from our lawyers is one I regularly quote to students when chatting to them about defamation law. For obvious reasons of not wanting to end up in hot water, I can't give more specifics linking it to the story in question, but let your imagination run wild – that's probably more fun, anyway. This line was back on my mind this week as questions around free speech were firmly on the agenda. These never really go away, of course, but the spotlight has been particularly intense amid the Kneecap furore. We know the value of free speech at The National. We believe independence supporters, those standing up for Gaza, anti-Trident campaigners and many more whose voices have too often gone unheard must be given platforms. And we know that sometimes this involves harsh things being said. Our job as a newspaper is to facilitate that as far as we can, to find the line and the balance – so within the confines of defamation law and without breaching our responsibilities with IPSO. READ MORE: 'Not a fluke': University rector speaks out after winning appeal over Gaza dismissal But what we must ensure we never do is moderate language to appease the powerful. Another version of The National would be quiet on all these big issues to secure the advertising cash that we don't receive just now as we're seen as too political. We don't do that. Instead, we count on the support of our subscribers and readers to facilitate what we do. We don't try to score brownie points to get ourselves invited to lavish events and political receptions. We represent the voice of our readers. (Image: Owen Humphreys) If politicians go uncriticised and unscathed, we end up with the likes of Keir Starmer in power, handing Nigel Farage's Reform UK (above) the keys to the United Kingdom on a silver platter. And they can certainly afford a good few silver platters, having left Waspi women and pensioners, among many others, out in the cold. So, yes, for legal reasons, we can't print everything that we wish we could. But you can best believe we'll do our utmost to hold the powerful to account without fear of hurt feelings. And maybe this was also on my mind because we have a week-long series about Donald Trump coming up next week, eh?
Yahoo
01-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
John Wilkes's legacy
The cause of free speech has produced some unlikely champions, but none more so than the 18th-century libertine John Wilkes. By all accounts he was an unsavoury character but for all his flaws he embodied the spirit of liberty that is a defining characteristic of this nation, which is all too easily undermined by indifference and ignorance. Wilkes published an anti-government pamphlet called The North Briton, which in April 1763, carried a sustained attack on the King's Speech. He was arrested and charged with seditious libel – only to be cleared and re-elected to the Commons. Wilkes fought for the right to publish an opinion, however outrageous it might be, without being told by people in power what to say or prevented from saying what they did not want to hear. Until relatively recently, this was the accepted state of affairs in this country, but no longer. In the Commons this week, the name of Wilkes was invoked by Sir David Davis, in response to a ruling against The Telegraph by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). We reported remarks about the Muslim Association of Britain made in the chamber by Michael Gove when he was a minister but were censured because denials by the organisation about an affiliation to the Muslim Brotherhood were not sought. As Sir David said: 'Press freedom is a cornerstone of democracy, and for centuries the right to freely report on the proceedings of this House have been protected in British law. Those freedoms allowing the press to report without any hindrance or conditionality were secured as long ago as 1771 by John Wilkes. While IPSO may think it is being responsible, its reprimanding of The Telegraph undermines those fundamental rights.' Indeed so. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
